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will be fine paintings by Pleissner, Belmore Browne, W.R. Leigh and Frank Stick, along with a rare bronze by Carl Rungius. Major western art will include Frank Tenney Johnson's Roping a Bear $500,000-700,000; Albert Bierstadt's Sunset Over the Plains and Hetch Hetchy Valley-Yosemite, each $500,000-700,000; and Nicolai Fechin's Lolita $300,000-500,000. The largest single-owner collection of Edward Borein works to hit the market in a decade will be offered as well as a substantial one-owner collection by Maynard Dixon. Lone Bull, $400,000- 600,000 and Navajos in a Canyon $500,000-700,000 are just two of 14 Dixons offered at Coeur d' Alene. Possibly the most interesting item this year isn't a painting at all. Unique to the sale will be the most important Native American artifact ever sold. The personal war shirt of Chief Joseph, which he wore in the first-ever recorded photograph of him following his surrender to General Howard on Oct. 5, 1977, is estimated to sell for $800,000-1,200,000. This piece of American history has already created quite a stir and the bidding for it should be interesting to watch. Coeur d' Alene has always featured a handful of top contemporary artists who create paintings just for the sale. New works will be offered by Howard SPOR TIN G CL ASSICS 169